Brother Fray Andres Garcia assured me that he had
never seen anything so terrible looking in Espana, Italia, or any
place. Many other things happened to the father, which might make a
long history, but do not apply to the matter in hand.
He was much loved by the Indians, for he rendered free and open aid
to them, so far as he was able.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
_Of the election of our father Fray Juan Enriquez_
Our father Fray Alonso de Baraona, in the course of his government,
as a person who so well understood the province and its members,
thought that no one was better fitted to govern it than our father
Fray Juan Enriquez, then the senior definitor. Concerning him, I have
not said much of what was seen, and the troubles which he suffered,
on the occasion of the unhappy death of our father Fray Vicente. We
were made to see how unjust that was, for our Lord freed him from
those annoyances with so much honor, by making him provincial, to
the applause and pleasure of all; and he was elected May 7, 1620. The
father master, Fray Pedro Garcia, presided over this chapter, as he
had letters-patent for that from our most reverend father-general,
which the archbishop brought, together with his title as master, when
he came from Espana to these islands.
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